Francis Cotton

Francis Henry Sharples-Cotton (died June 1839) was a general of Great Britain who was stationed in British India during the 1830s. He was dispatched to accompany the Governor General Auckland's aide William Hay Macnaghten to India, and remained as an offical of British India until his death in 1839.

Biography
Francis Henry Sharples-Cotton was born in the early 19th century in Great Britain, and he was assigned to accompany William Hay Macnaghten, the aide to Governor General Auckland of British India. He was secretly a member of the Templar Order who sought to find the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a "piece of Eden" that was in the hands of the Sikh Empire. Cotton was blocked in his attempts to steal the diamond by Arbaaz Mir, a member of the Assassin Order who did not want to let the diamond fall into Cotton's hands.

Cotton eventually poisoned Ranjit Singh, the Maharajah of the Sikh Empire, who owned the diamond. It fell into Cotton's hands, but Mir attempted to steal it back. Mir's lover Pyara Kaur used the diamond's power, and when Cotton tried to shoot her, it created an energy blast that killed him.